Between the clear mountains and beautiful waters, a wide loess road winds through the mountains.

A troika, driving steadily on the loess road that is as solid as a stone, several snow-white, tall, and crystalline horse-shaped beasts with a single horn on their foreheads, walking gracefully around the carriage.

On the back of the strange beast, riding several young men and women in samurai suits, it was Li Qing and his party who went to the southern theater of operations.

In fact, the most convenient way to go to the Southern Military Region is to go south directly by sea boat.

Although the Empire's South China Sea Fleet has been defeated and the reconstruction has not yet been completed, the fleet of the Holy Light Alliance is active in the South China Sea, and it is dangerous to go south by sea ship. But with the strength of Li Qing and his entourage, if they take a fast boat to the south along the coastline, as long as they don't collide with the main fleet of the Holy Light Alliance, there will be no danger.

If you run into a detachment of the Holy Light Alliance......

With Su Su, Li Qing, and Chu Lingfeng, who has been promoted to the middle stage of the Transformation of Gods, and whose conventional combat strength is not inferior to Li Qing, coupled with the strength of the four masters of Xiaolongnu, who is willing to go south with Li Qing and the others with the help of Su Su, the general Holy Light Alliance detachment fleet, if it collides with them, it is equivalent to delivering food.

But Li Qing and his entourage did not choose to take a boat.

Because the military department gave Li Qing an order, he was limited to reporting to the Southern Theater Command within one month.

With such plenty of time, of course, there was no need to rush south by fast boat -- Li Qing wanted to go south as soon as possible to join the war, and to have a good time fighting in the southern theater, where battles were fought every day. But Susu disagreed.

She wanted to use this time to perfect her film script and shoot some film material by the way. For example, the customs of the empire, big cities and small villages, splendid mountains and rivers, etc.

In other words, although the Eastern Empire is the mirror country of China on the earth, due to the existence of supernatural energy, the Eastern Empire of the second earth is quite different from the earth in terms of customs and customs.

For example, some ethnic minorities living in the empire even have animal characteristics - there is a minority group with first-born horns, called the Jiuli tribe, although the strength is infinite, but the main work is metallurgy and planting.

The Jiuli people have an extraordinary talent in metallurgy.

Any Jiuli civilian, without any special materials, just ordinary steel, can create weapons and equipment equivalent to low-level spiritual weapons. Although it was only the lowest-level spiritual weapon, it was all made of ordinary materials after all, which showed its strong metallurgical talent.

In the spirit weapon workshop of the empire, many master craftsmen are from the Jiuli tribe.

The Jiuli people are also very good at planting.

Whether it is an ordinary food crop or a spiritual plant elixir with a low survival rate and is difficult to serve, they can grow it very well. The grain fields tended by the Jiuli people are twice as productive as ordinary grain fields. The spiritual plant elixir it cultivates has a high survival rate and a large yield, and is very popular with the alchemists and pharmacists of the empire.

It's a pity that the population of the Jiuli tribe is too small, the entire empire, with a population of 370 million, the population of the Jiuli tribe is less than 500,000.

Because of its sparse population, even if the Jiuli people, both men and women, are extremely powerful, have the talent of "fire-resistant skin", and have the talent of martial arts, they are natural warrior materials, and the empire is reluctant to send them to the battlefield.

The empire has no shortage of people, a population of 370 million, how can there be no soldiers? Talents like Jiuli people who are both metallurgical and planting can give full play to their value in workshops and farms, spiritual plantation gardens, and spiritual medicine gardens.

In addition to the strange human race, the natural scenery of Earth II is also very different from that of Earth.

Under the subtle influence of supernatural forces, the natural scenery of Earth No. 2 is more majestic and magnificent than that of Earth China.

In some famous mountains and rivers, giant trees that are more than a few hundred meters high and like big umbrellas abound.

In some primeval jungles and wildlife sanctuaries, there are not enough powerful demon spirits, but they have a little supernatural power, and they are more gorgeous than ordinary beasts, and there are many beasts full of fantasy.

In one of the famous attractions in the southwest of the empire, there is even a floating mountain like in the Avatar movie.

These exotic landscapes and natural wonders are excellent film material. But most of them are inland, and if you take a boat, you won't be able to see them.

It is for this reason that Su Su advocated going overland - not only did she have to take the opportunity to shoot some film materials, but also to get some rare animals and plants to fill her half-plane and enrich the biological resources in the half-plane.

This decision was also supported by Scarlett.

Scarlett received Susu's task to balance the ecological chain of the half-plane. She's been planning for a long time, but she hasn't had time to collect flora and fauna.

Now she has traveled all the way to the south by land, and in a month, she has collected a lot of wildlife.

Xiaoxing stayed overnight all the way, and in the blink of an eye, Li Qing and his party had been on the way south for ten days.

Thanks to the half-plane, in these ten days, even if they missed the night stay, Li Qing and his party could go back to the half-plane to rest, but they didn't have to sleep in the wilderness.

And every day, Scarlett, Little Dragon Girl, and Song Qiqi have to go back to Earth to report to their families, and sometimes they will stay overnight at their home on Earth.

Although there is a lot of travel between Earth 2 and Earth, there is no way to do it.

The little dragon sisters and Scarlett are not as comfortable as Chu Lingfeng and Ni Yuanyuan, if their families can't contact them for a long time, I'm afraid they will have to call the police.

At this moment, Li Qing and his entourage were walking on a mountain road with few pedestrians.

Although the Eastern Empire of Earth II is prosperous, it has only a population of 370 million after all. Even the more than one billion people in China on Earth have many sparsely populated mountainous areas, and in the Eastern Empire of Earth 2, there will only be more similar places.

Therefore, from the morning to the near noon, Li Qing and the others were stunned and did not meet a pedestrian.

"Long'er, how far is it from Lishan?" Su Su lifted the curtain and poked her head out of the window.

"It's not far away, and after half an hour of walking, you can see Lishan." The little dragon girl replied expressionlessly.

For the title of "dragon", the little dragon girl has been completely numb.

Now not only Su Su calls her so, but even Li Qing, who has always called her "Hanhan", Scarlett, who calls her "Dragon", and even Ni Yuanyuan and Chu Lingfeng, also call Long'er. and cousin Song Qiqi did not join in the fun.

The little dragon girl corrected it a few times, but it didn't have the slightest effect. In desperation, I had to acquiesce.

"Hmm, is there still half an hour to go?" Su Su nodded and said, "Then call me when you arrive." With that, she retracted into the car again, frowned, bit the pen and made up the script, and muttered to herself: "Lishan...... Well, you can add a storyline to the bandits......"

In the area of Lishan, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the scenery is excellent, but the complex terrain and dense forests make the Lishan area extremely troubled. Not only are there native-born mountain bandits, but there are also a large number of Jiangyang thieves who have committed crimes in the outside world and fled to Lishan.

These mountain bandits and thieves did not produce and lived by plundering, and when they were most rampant, they cut off the traffic in the Lishan area, and the business travelers from the south to the north would rather take a detour of hundreds of miles than pass through the Lishan mountain area.

The local government would not turn a blind eye to such a strict banditry, so they sent troops to suppress it.

The army suppresses bandits, and it is naturally invincible. A large number of cottages were breached, and tens of thousands of mountain bandits and thieves were hunted down and killed by the army. As a result, the rampant banditry subsided slightly.

However, the environment of Lishan was too complicated, and many fish that slipped through the net hid in the deep mountains and dense forests, escaping the pursuit of the army. After the army retreated, it came out again and continued its activities.

After a while, with the addition of new mountain bandits, the Lishan bandits revived. Then there was another round of officers and soldiers......

However, no matter how much is suppressed, because of the environmental problems in Lishan, the bandits will never be eradicated. At most, there is only a slight difference between a slight and a strict zhòng.

Five years ago, Lishan was carefully combed by the government sending an army and the strong. More than 10,000 bandits were killed and killed, and tens of thousands of mountain people were moved to live in the plains. Later, more than a dozen walled forts of various sizes were built next to the mountain road, in order to solve the problem of Lishan bandits once and for all.

After that heavy hammer blow, Lishan was very quiet for a while, and there was an endless stream of business travelers and pedestrians from the north and south.

However, as the Western world invaded the empire, the empire was attacked on all sides, and the border was constantly at war. Under the tremendous military pressure, many domestic problems could not be taken care of, and the Lishan bandit problem once again revived. Regardless of the small share of bandits, it is said that there are no less than 20 shares of large bandits with more than 100 people alone.

Since the beginning of this year, among the Lishan bandits, there have even been gold-level and pillar-level powerhouses.

It is said that a strong person of this level can live in peace wherever he goes, and he really can't afford to go up the mountain and fall into the grass. Even if you commit a crime, you can also seek refuge in the big forces. However, some strong people committed cases that were too strict, and the general big forces did not dare to shelter them.

For example, there is a group of bandits who just emerged this year, and their three leaders with gold-level strength have committed a major case of robbing military salaries.

At the head of the national war, not to mention looting military salaries, even if only a few sabers were robbed, it was a capital crime. Once caught, they will be beheaded. Even if he is lucky enough not to die, he will be put on death row and sent to the front line of the most tragic fighting to be cannon fodder.

In April of this year, a strong man from the pillar country was wanted by the whole country for raping/killing a county lord, so he went up the mountain and fell into the grass.

There are many more examples like this.

Although the people of the empire are fierce, not everyone is a patriot.

There are always unscrupulous people, at this juncture of the national war, not only do not think of serving the country, but take the opportunity to stir up trouble and make waves, endangering all directions - just like those bandits who still gathered in the mountains and forests and killed the people during the Anti-Japanese War in China. In addition to bandits, there are also traitors. The Eastern Empire of Earth II also has the number of forgetful people who have taken refuge in the Holy Light Alliance.

This kind of scum, no matter in which world or country, is not new.

After the resurgence of banditry in Lishan, although the road was not cut off, the business travelers who came and went now did not dare to go on the road without gathering enough three or five hundred people.

Like Li Qing and them, there are only a few people who dare to take this road, and they are even more unique.

Su Su was thinking about how to add a plot to suppress bandits in the car, and Li Qing and the others really met the mountain bandits outside.

A group of people suddenly rushed to the road from the forest beside the road and stopped in front of Li Qing and the others in a chaotic manner.

The leader is a charming man in his thirties, with an open placket, revealing a hairy chest, holding a big knife, laughing twice, and saying a popular line throughout the ages: "I opened this mountain, and I planted this tree!" If you want to fight this, leave to buy road money! Dare to say half a word, hum ......"

The big man lifted the big knife, slashed in the air, sank into the dantian, and shouted: "Don't blame grandpa for the white knife to go in and the red knife to come out!" ”

After a classic roadblock robbery line was finished, the younger brothers behind the big man followed loudly and became agitated.

Li Qing and the others looked at this rabble of only twenty people with tears and laughter - they didn't even have a pair of armor, and their weapons were either ordinary big blades or the most ordinary wooden spears. The bows of the only two archers were all bamboo bows, and the arrows were also sharpened bamboo...... What is this virtue that is not a rabble?

The funniest thing is that this gang of bandits is quite nervous.

Obviously, Li Qing and his entourage are only a strong man, and the rest are girls, and they are still beautiful girls. The general habitual bandits saw it, and if they couldn't see Li Qing's details, they would definitely be arrogant. Looking at the girls' eyes, you don't have to think about it, they are bound to be naked/naked/naked wolf-like eyes with green light.

But this group of more than 20 mountain bandits, their mouths were full of irritability, their eyes were wide, and they tried their best to twist their faces, acting like fierce gods. The hand holding the weapon was bruised, and the muscles in his body were even tighter to the point of stiffness, and he was extremely nervous at first glance.

The big man in the lead, his lines are read decently, his breath is also very strong, and his voice is quite loud. But it feels like it's giving itself courage.

At this level, you still dare to come to rob?

Su Su, who was in the car, also heard the irritability outside. She perked up, threw down her pen and lifted the curtain and got out. As a result, when he saw the rabble, he was immediately disappointed, and he didn't bother to say a word, his mouth pursed, his little head twisted, and he turned back into the carriage.

Li Qing and the others also laughed.

"Laughing at what?" The leading man roared, and his voice was a little nervous: "Didn't you hear what I said? Give all your money! ”

"And horses." An old man in his forties, with a swarthy face and a wrinkled face, who looked like an old farmer more than a bandit, reminded: "Their horses are all good horses, and they are very valuable at a glance." The horns on the heads of those white horses are made of silver mixed with crystal, and they must be more valuable. ”

Well, this old man thought that the crystal horn on the unicorn's forehead was an ornament to be installed.

Li Qing shook his head and said with a smile: "I said, this is the first time you have robbed, right?" ”

The leading man was stunned for a moment, and before he could think of how to answer, a young man behind him, who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, exclaimed, and was shocked: "You, how do you know? ”

When the leading man heard this, he turned around and yelled at the young man: "Wang Xiaoer, you idiot!" He's cheating on you, why did you leak all the bottom? Why did Lao Tzu bring such an idiot as you out to rob? ”

"Uncle Liu." The young man swallowed, and said with a sad face, "You, you just said my name. Didn't you say you couldn't call each other by name? It's over, they know my name. ”

The leading man was also stunned, annoyed and angry, and roared in a thunderous voice: "You idiot also called me Uncle Liu!" Before Lao Tzu came out, he had already told me a thousand times, so that you could call me the big boss, why can't you remember? ”

"It's Wang Xiaoer who didn't remember." A young man in his twenties was not convinced: "We didn't call you Uncle Liu again." ”

"Haven't screamed yet? Haven't screamed yet? The big man trembled with anger, and knocked the young man on the shoulder with the back of his knife: "You kid just said the three words of Uncle Liu again!" I'm afraid that others won't remember what Lao Tzu is called, right? ”

The young man shouted while hiding: "What's wrong with calling Old Uncle Liu?" There are so many people in the world who are called Uncle Liu, let's not talk about it, who knows that you are Uncle Liu from Laogen Village? ”

The leading man was angry and chased after the young man: "Stinky boy, you are still hiding!" If you don't tell others, you don't know? There is an old root village within a radius of eighty miles around here, and when others go to the village to find out who is called Uncle Liu, won't they find me out? ”

"Ouch hurts, don't fight! They all said stop fighting, and hit me again! Ouch you're still fighting! I've got it back! The young man was angry, but he really fought back, scuffling with the leading man. When the rest of the people saw this, they surrounded them in a chaotic manner, and those who persuaded to fight and those who broke the siege were relieved, in short, it became a mess.

Li Qing and the others were stunned at first, and then laughed breathlessly. Song Qiqi even fell directly from the unicorn's back with her stomach in her arms......

Even Su Su, who was not interested in this rabble at all, came out of the carriage again at this moment. Sitting on the wheel, smiling without eyebrows.

"What's all the fuss?" The forty-year-old man spoke up again, grabbed the young man and reprimanded, "Do you want to make jokes for outsiders? ”

"Who told Uncle Liu to beat me?" The young man's face was full of unconvinced: "My mother has never beaten me!" ”

Old Uncle Liu said: "You kid just owe a beating!" If your mother doesn't beat you, she can't beat you! Uncle Liu, I will take your place as your father who died early, teach you a good lesson, and save you from knowing that the sky is high and the earth is thick! ”

The young man stiffened his neck: "What qualifications do you have to discipline me on behalf of my father?" You're not my brother! ”

Uncle Liu brandished a big knife: "But Lao Tzu is your father's sworn brother!" Lao Tzu should inherit your father and discipline you! ”

The young man grabbed the big knife and cut it off with his bare hands: "What can you discipline?" I have all my skills, what can you discipline me? If it weren't for the fact that you and my father are sworn brothers, do you think you can beat me? I can kill you with one punch! ”

Uncle Liu was furious, wielding half a big knife: "You fight, you kill Lao Tzu and try ......"

The young man was disdainful: "I don't bully the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. ”

"You ......"

There was a commotion here, and Li Qing and the others laughed even harder. Song Qiqi just got up, and when she saw that the channel had switched to a family ethics drama, she laughed down again.

Su Su, who was sitting on the wheel, was also happy, and almost fell off the wheel, and the two arms of the bird flapped their wings more than a dozen times, and was helped by Li Qing, and finally regained his balance.

Seeing that he had completely forgotten his original intention and was immersed in the farce between the older generation and the young people who disobeyed discipline, Li Qing couldn't help grinning: "This gang of thieves is really ......."

"It's so unprofessional." Su Su rubbed his face with a smile and said, "The first time people led a team to rob when they were young, they were much more professional than them. ”

"It's a bunch of farmers." The little dragon girl said with a smile: "Looking at the cocoons on their hands, they basically haven't held weapons much. Just that rebellious young man, a little bit of power. ”

"Well, the strength of being able to break an iron knife with bare hands is really good." Chu Lingfeng agreed: "Looking at the techniques of grasping knives and breaking knives, it is indeed practiced martial arts. ”

Li Qingqi said: "Doesn't every village and village in the empire have basic strength training? How did this group of people practice alone? The rest are the most ordinary peasants! ”

"It should be the mountain people who moved out of Lishan five years ago." Xiaolongnu said: "The mountain people of Lishan are the main source of Lishan mountain bandits, and they do not obey the king's law, nor have they received the basic education of the empire. Five years ago, the empire relocated more than 100,000 mountain people to the mountains, gathered villages and villages, and established a system, but basic education was not carried out.

"It will take at least another generation for them to be truly bound by grammar before they begin to educate on basic strength. You see, the Empire's approach is justified, didn't this group of mountain people, don't they relapse again and leave the village to block the road and rob? ”

Li Qingdao: "Long'er, it's not very appropriate to describe them as bandits." This is obviously a bunch of rookies! Besides, I always thought that if there was a good life, who would be willing to be a bandit? Look at the old farmer, with his hands full of calluses, he clearly looks like he has been planting all his life. Without difficulty, he would be willing to throw down the hoe and pick up the knife? ”

The little dragon girl shrugged: "Then you arrest them and ask them?" ”

"Yes, you have to ask." Li Qing smiled, urged the mount, and came to the bandits who were making a mess and completely forgot about Li Qing, and pulled out the knife with a choking sound, and slashed with a swing of the knife, and eighteen dragon-shaped knife qi burst out of the air, roaring and rolling into the bandits. The young man reprimanded, "Do you make a joke for outsiders? ”

"Who told Uncle Liu to beat me?" The young man's face was full of unconvinced: "My mother has never beaten me!" ”

Old Uncle Liu said: "You kid just owe a beating!" If your mother doesn't beat you, she can't beat you! Uncle Liu, I will take your place as your father who died early, teach you a good lesson, and save you from knowing that the sky is high and the earth is thick! ”

The young man stiffened his neck: "What qualifications do you have to discipline me on behalf of my father?" You're not my brother! ”

Uncle Liu brandished a big knife: "But Lao Tzu is your father's sworn brother!" Lao Tzu should inherit your father and discipline you! ”

The young man grabbed the big knife and cut it off with his bare hands: "What can you discipline?" I have all my skills, what can you discipline me? If it weren't for the fact that you and my father are sworn brothers, do you think you can beat me? I can kill you with one punch! ”

Uncle Liu was furious, wielding half a big knife: "You fight, you kill Lao Tzu and try ......"

The young man was disdainful: "I don't bully the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. ”

"You ......"

There was a commotion here, and Li Qing and the others laughed even harder. Song Qiqi just got up, and when she saw that the channel had switched to a family ethics drama, she laughed down again.

Su Su, who was sitting on the wheel, was also happy, and almost fell off the wheel, and the two arms of the bird flapped their wings more than a dozen times, and was helped by Li Qing, and finally regained his balance.

Seeing that he had completely forgotten his original intention and was immersed in the farce between the older generation and the young people who disobeyed discipline, Li Qing couldn't help grinning: "This gang of thieves is really ......."

"It's so unprofessional." Su Su rubbed his face with a smile and said, "The first time people led a team to rob when they were young, they were much more professional than them. ”

"It's a bunch of farmers." The little dragon girl said with a smile: "Looking at the cocoons on their hands, they basically haven't held weapons much. Just that rebellious young man, a little bit of power. ”

"Well, the strength of being able to break an iron knife with bare hands is really good." Chu Lingfeng agreed: "Looking at the techniques of grasping knives and breaking knives, it is indeed practiced martial arts. ”

Li Qingqi said: "Doesn't every village and village in the empire have basic strength training? How did this group of people practice alone? The rest are the most ordinary peasants! ”

"It should be the mountain people who moved out of Lishan five years ago." Xiaolongnu said: "The mountain people of Lishan are the main source of Lishan mountain bandits, and they do not obey the king's law, nor have they received the basic education of the empire. Five years ago, the empire relocated more than 100,000 mountain people to the mountains, gathered villages and villages, and established a system, but basic education was not carried out.

"It will take at least another generation for them to be truly bound by grammar before they begin to educate on basic strength. You see, the Empire's approach is justified, didn't this group of mountain people, don't they relapse again and leave the village to block the road and rob? ”

Li Qingdao: "Long'er, it's not very appropriate to describe them as bandits." This is obviously a bunch of rookies! Besides, I always thought that if there was a good life, who would be willing to be a bandit? Look at the old farmer, with his hands full of calluses, he clearly looks like he has been planting all his life. Without difficulty, he would be willing to throw down the hoe and pick up the knife? ”

The little dragon girl shrugged: "Then you arrest them and ask them?" ”

"Yes, you have to ask." Li Qing smiled, urged the mount, and came to the bandits who were making a mess and completely forgot about Li Qing, and pulled out the knife with a choking sound, and slashed with a swing of the knife, and eighteen dragon-shaped knife qi burst out of the air, roaring and rolling into the bandits.